Depth
A NaruHina Fanfic
Chapter 13: Tragedy Will Only Bring You Down
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Wtf Taylor how did your lyrics get in the title name?
Disclaimer: Ah *big intake of breath* NAH
Lol fuck that was lame
O and this is second to last chapter so big rumble in this one, the next one's pretty short I think, guess it and I'll actually reply to your review for once heheh I'm pretty lazy like that.
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"So what's happening today sensei?" Daigo asked eagerly as he walked into the clearing, seeing Hinata already standing there, leaning on a tree. Her eyes were closed, but she eerily didn't seem at all surprised by his appearance. He now knew why, she had probably either heard or felt him approaching from ages away.
She smiled, hearing his use of sensei for the first time; it seemed he had grown a little respect for her. "Well Daigo, you'll see when your teammates arrive" she said sweetly. "Which is right now."
He looked back down the road behind him and sure enough, the heads of his two other teammates came into view.
Hinata shifted her body weight off the tree and walked over to the three posts in the center of the clearing, slipping her hand over the rough wood. "I brought you all the way out here today as most of the training areas nearer the village are being taken up with other various tests some senseis are putting their students through" she said, explaining to them why they had had to walk half an hour out of the village just to get to this ground. "Today, you three have a simple mission. Well, uh, test. It's kind of famous around here. Naruto-kun has told me all about it, and said he was putting his whole team through it, so I suppose I'll put you guys through it too."
"Naruto-kun? Is he a good friend of yours?" Ai asked all innocent looking, starting to wonder just what the Hokage's relationship was with her sensei.
Hinata reddened slightly. "Well uhh, yea, yes, you could say that. Well, really, really good friends."
"That good huh? He seemed to know a lot about you" Ai teased slightly, seeing how easily her sensei got embarrassed.
"Y-you talked to him?" Hinata said in surprise. "W-what did he say about me?"
"Oh, nothing much" Ai dodged.
Hinata gawked. "Nothing much huh? I thought he'd have more to say about his girlfriend."
She paused, silence washing over the clearing. She put a hand over her mouth in shock. "Did I just say that out loud!" she gasped.
Ai's face brightened with that wow factor. "Wow!" she shouted. "Boyfriend! You're the Hokage's girlfriend! How cool is that!" She turned to her teammates, expecting an answer. She got: blank faces. They were guys of course.
"Eh-hmm" Hinata said, clearing her throat to get some semblance of dignity back, banishing her red face and getting their attention. "Now, your mission for today is simple enough." She pulled two bells out of the pouch sitting snug on her backside. "All you have to do is get these bells off me, and the one who doesn't get one…" She paused for dramatic effect. "Goes without lunch!"
"WHAAAAT!" the genin screamed.
Hinata cackled. "Haha you thought I was going to do something horrible like send you back to the academy right?" she said mischievously.
When they nodded, she took on a fake offended look. "I'm not that mean! But maybe if none of you can get a bell off me, I might consider it" she said with a smirk, acting very un-Hinata like, getting revenge on her genin for extracting that little secret of Naruto and her's pairing out of her. After all, that was not very professional, and she wanted to look cool for her genin, as did everyone. Poor Hinata had it just as bad.
"Anyway, I won't be using chakra to see my surroundings to make it a little more even, but remember; I still have my ears, nose, taste and touch, so I definitely won't be helpless. If you even hope to touch one of these bells you're going to need to be prepared to kill me to get them" she said with all seriousness.
This took the assembled genin off guard. "K-Kill?" Ai stuttered.
Hinata gave them a closed eyed smile. "But don't worry about me; I'm sure you couldn't do worse than my past." At those words, her visage slightly dropped, but she quickly wiped it away by a bout of smiling. "Good luck, begin!" she said with another, though this time obviously fake, closed eyed smile.
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The three genin leapt away, all feeling guilty for bringing up their sensei's sensitive past, as they were now all aware of the overall details of it, even if they couldn't even begin to imagine her suffering. Daigo eyed up his sensei. He now knew she was tough, but he still thought he could take her. He just needed to get a bell before one of his teammates did. He eyed her up, standing in the middle of the clearing like that, blind and chakra senseless. If he was quite enough, he could grab a bell from her dangling fingertips without her even noticing. He slowly rose from under the bush and took silent step into the clearing.
Her head whipped round the instant his foot landed and suddenly he found the hilt end of a kunai flying towards his head.
Jin winced when he saw Daigo knocked back into the bush unconscious the moment he stepped out. Well, if she had that good hearing, he would just have to mess it up. He took off away from the clearing until he was well out of range of hearing, and then whispered his incantation just in case.
"Shadow Clone jutsu."
A clone appeared just like him, and he grinned, running back towards the clearing. Since he didn't see Ai unconscious anywhere, he decided she hadn't made a move yet, so before his clone ran out he made his. As one, they ran out into the clearing towards their sensei.
"Very good Jin, using a shadow clone to trick my hearing" Hinata said, then knelt to the ground, putting one palm onto the soft grass. She stayed that way for a second, before standing back up and waiting for Jin to arrive.
The thing he found incredibly unnerving though was her sightless eyes tracked his clone flawlessly from the moment she rose from the ground. As predicted, when his clone went for the swipe from one side, and he did from the other, she thrust her elbow into the clones face as it reached down. Her hand continued through the exploding chakra to sweep the bells out of reach of the real Jin's hands.
"Dam it, how did you know which one was which!" he shouted in annoyance. She smiled ever so slightly.
"Shadow clones are not real, therefore they have a lot less weight than you. When I felt the tremors in the earth, I knew exactly which was the real one."
She sighed slightly. "Maybe this is still too easy for me" she thought out loud. She nodded her head and turned to Jin. "Yes, it is, sorry if that's insulting but it's the truth, here, I'm going to make it a little easier for you."
Reaching back into her pouch, she brought out a matching pair of wax ear plugs and fitted them to her ears, effectively blocking out all sound, even for her keen ears. Now she just had touch, taste, and smell to work with.
"Yatta! Now she's screwed!" Daigo shouted with his newly refound consciousness, coming running out of the bushes. Hinata sweat dropped, she could feel his footsteps like thunder from here.
"So what's your plan now" she said to him, ignoring Jin. She felt him move an inch, to capitalize on her distraction, and twitched a smile. "Good move Jin" she said, throwing the bells up to her other hand and catching his fist in the previous bell hand.
Grinning mischievously, the Two Tails jinchuuriki latched onto his fist, using his momentum without her own muscle power (that would have sent him all the way back to the village via Hinata airways) to throw him into his recklessly approaching teammate, sending them both crashing back through the trees at the edge of the clearing.
Hinata felt around for Ai, but she was not in the clearing. "Ai, I know it's good to fully analyze an opponent's weaknesses before rushing in, but don't you think it's been a bit long now, I mean the boys could have gotten the bells off me by now."
She knew she wouldn't be able to hear a reply, so she just waited to feel for the girl to approach. When nothing happened, she frowned slightly, but didn't act on it. It was strange, but this was only her second day with these genin, so she didn't know how they acted. For all she knew, Ai could be setting up some super elaborate long range trap.
She however could not keep herself from worrying when neither of the boys came back either. After ten minutes, her anxiety got the better of her and she stepped forward, planning to take off the earplugs and let loose her chakra sheet. But, just as she did, she felt a small tremor in the earth, and smiled in relief, it felt like the two boys were back. Maybe they had finally figured out that they needed to work together if they ever even wanted a chance at the bells.
But where was Ai?
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Ai woke up suddenly, coming out of the genjutsu that had just had her smooching Jin. "Wha, what the hell was that!" she shouted to herself. "What sort of dream was that supposed to be! Or more like a nightmare!"
She got up, finding herself in the middle of the forest, and not in her bed like she had expected. "Wait, what?" she thought, remembering that she had just come up with a plan to get the bells off Hinata, then feeling a presence behind her, turning, and looking into the red eye of a masked man.
"The others!" she shouted and started running.
Ai and Jin woke up together, simultaneously realized what happened, saw Ai sprinting past their previously comaed out forms, and ran behind her back towards the clearing.
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"So you guys finally have a plan?" Hinata said to the two before her. She felt them approaching slowly, hesitantly. She waited for them to come, she was better at close range anyway, and it was good to keep their spirits up by letting them think they were getting closer to grabbing the bells.
As the boys approached she began to move into action, but hesitated when she felt three more figures run into the clearing, dim screaming filtering through her earplugs. Then she felt the air disturbance as an impossibly fast attack came towards her from whom she previously thought had been Jin.
She swiveled out of the way, but was not fast enough to completely evade the attack, the life threatening thrust to her chest instead tugging down her side, cutting straight through the hardened material and leaving a gaping flap of skin hanging underneath her vest.
Her chakra sheet covered the field in an instant, and the plugs were out. She gasped in shock, not pain from her wound, when her chakra felt out the contours of her opponents.
"No, w-what are you doing here?" she whispered, unable to keep the fear and anger from her voice.
Madara Uchiha chuckled behind his mask. "Lucky your students warned you in time, Nibi my dear, but now you will be coming with us."
White Zetsu cackled by his side. "My my Madara, you are in a good mood today, finally we are down to the last two jinchuuriki again, both in Konoha, but here we find one outside the village wall with no protection but a bunch of genin."
Dark Zetsu butted in. "Yesss, but she is not entirely defenseless herself."
"You're damn right about that" Hinata hissed.
Madara agreed with Zetsu, but he eyed the children behind them. "However, she has one weakness here!" he shouted in triumph, leaping at the genin.
Zetsu moved to block Hinata's reflexive dash, but he was pushed back by the sheer force of chakra emanating from her. She appeared before Madara and he barely avoided her fist towards his head, having to send his head momentarily into the Suseri realm to avoid it. (I'm just going off half remembered other fanfics for this fight so please bear with me)
"Stay behind me!" Hinata screamed at the genin.
They couldn't run until she had taken out at least one of the Akatsuki, or else the other might hold her up while one went after them. She staked out her two enemies more closely. "I thought the Akatsuki organization broke down after their failed attempt to capture Naruto-kun" she said.
Her students flinched visibly. "T-t-the Akatsuki" Ai stuttered in fear. Every person in Konoha knew that name, and that one of their members had been responsible for the destruction of their village.
"The last two, soon to be a forgotten history" Hinata hissed, her stance that of a bristling cat.
The genin marveled at their sensei's change from sweet kind shy Hinata to this crouching predator. Zetsu walked up beside Madara. 'I'll take out asparagus first, then the kids can run while I deal with Madara" Hinata thought. Kisame had been easy enough, but that had been because he seriously underestimated her. These two obviously knew of her strengths, having left her until second to last. They knew that even though she harbored the second weakest jinchuuriki, she was second in strength only to the nine tails, the king of the Bijuu, the Hokage of Konoha, and more importantly her boyfriend, Naruto Uzumaki.
Madara decided to stall a little while, knowing the longer they waited the more blood she lost out that wound in her side, so the slower she would get. "So how's Naruto been doing" he said, smirking behind his mask.
Even he was shocked by the hate filled filth that spewed from Hinata's mouth. "Don't even say his name you fucking bastard" she screamed and came at him. He had been the one responsible for all Naruto and her villages suffering, the one that had started everything by making the Kyuubi attack Konoha. All her pent up hatred exploded towards him.
Madara grinned, though unintentional, he had baited the jinchuuriki and now she was coming straight for him, leaving Zetsu to sneak around the side to get at the kids, to use them as hostages.
Hinata's eyes blazed, but her plan was not forgotten. She could feel Zetsu angling around her, and instantly changed her charge, catching the 'man' off guard. However, he was spared his heart being exploded within his chest from her immense gentle fist strike by splitting his body in half, the White Zetsu going one way around the girl with the black half going the opposite.
Hinata, suddenly finding herself with three opponents to defend the kids from, gritted her teeth in frustration. Massive lion head fists instantly sprung to life around her hands, dwarfing those she had used against Pain, showing just how far she had come since then since these were so much more powerful and she could use them instantly.
With two ferocious punches, she hooked each Zetsu in the head as it went past her. The chakra exploded on impact, and she was splattered with blood and pieces of person as the bodies flew back away from her, bits of brain and other numerous disintegrated head pieces adorning her. Her grin turned feral when she turned to Madara, a look of mild concern on his face.
"Zetsu, get up, we need to deal with her as a concentrated effort, forget the kids" he said, and Hinata watched in shock as the two Zetsus grew new heads and picked themselves up out of the craters they had left in the ground.
"Shit" she cursed under her breath. She was struggling to hold back the now raging Nibi, she didn't want the kids to see such horror, and she was not about to let that out this near the village. Half an hour on foot was nothing to a bijuu. Even if Nibi was allied with her, she knew it still had machinations, as did all bijuu, of escaping its jinchuuriki.
"Get out of here while you can!" Hinata yelled to the genin behind her, having heard Madara's words and taking the opportunity. She almost killed them herself when she heard there brave reply.
As one, they shouted back. "We're not leaving you sensei!"
Hinata couldn't help a wry grin spread over her face. She turned to them, holding back her scowl with said grin, though a frown was twitching on her menacing, blood splattered face. "Oh really" she said.
The genin, almost crapping their pants from seeing the sadistic grin on their sensei's face, bits of brain spattered over her cheek, instantly heeded her order and ran for their lives.
However, what Hinata didn't 'see', as her attention was now solely on her enemies, was that Jin grabbed the other two and stopped in the tree line, hiding up in a tree.
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Hinata eyed up her enemies, now that she didn't have to protect anyone, she felt more confident. However, that also meant that she was their only target, so every effort of theirs would be to put her down.
Hinata now had no fears about using her Nibi powers now she would not scare the kids, but she would still not dare use it here. If she lost control… She didn't want to think about what would happen.
Instead, Hinata opted for using a technique she hadn't for months. 'Nibi, I need your eyes' she spoke inwardly for her tenant and let the demon partially take over. Its chakra swarmed into her old shattered Hyuuga eyes, and the world came to life around her, not in the hues of blue from her chakra, but accentuated in the colors of the rainbow. She smiled despite the situation, no matter how well she was able to sense her surroundings, nothing could compare to real sight. And the sight from her bijuu was even better than what she remembered 'real sight' had been.
Still, she had mastered her chakra sheet technique, so she kept it on, easily maintaining it with minimal chakra draining because of her tenants massive reserves. She 'felt' their bodies stiffen as their muscles tensed, even before her eyes picked it up, and she was already moving to avoid the White Zetsu's vines whipping out from the enfolds of his partially severed body.
Using her Protection of the Eight Trigrams in a partial jutsu, she whipped out a chakra thread and severed the vines as they passed. She saw the Black Zetsu coming up behind them so kept the attack up, hoping he wouldn't see the light blue of the deadly sharpened chakra.
However, he easily dodged and was upon her in seconds, a fist coming for her face. Her hands came up in a cross block but the sheer force of the attack still sent her flying across the clearing. She reprimanded herself as she dragged her body out of the dirt.
'I must be more careful, just because they don't look like they specialize in strength attacks, they are Akatsuki, so they'll be ultimately more powerful than any regular ninja in everything they do. And, these are the last two, so they must be some of the strongest.'
She stood up and began signing, drawing water droplets out of the air as she did. Even on a hot summer's day like this, the air was moist with fragments of water. Shaping them with chakra, she soon had thousands of tiny water needles surrounding her.
"Water bullet jutsu!" she shouted, thrusting her hands forward, and the wave of needly death filled the clearing towards the two Akatsuki. She eyed them wearily as she sprinted in behind her attack, still planning on taking out a Zetsu. She mused that if he was split in two, then his strength must also be halved. That would make his halves the weakest target.
Madara simply stood there as the needles approached, then sent his body into his alternate realm as they reached him. Each Zetsu's fly trap mouth folded up and lengthened around him, encasing him so that when the strikes hit they merely dug into the thick vegetation.
What White Zetsu didn't expect though, was that when his temporary defense lifted, again giving him sight of the battle, Hinata was right before him!
"You're mine this time!" she shouted, bringing her hands together straight armed before her. "Giant Lionhead fist!"
The power of the two lion heads merged as one sucked out her chakra and despite of Hinata's will, fed off the Nibi's chakra too. With a slight tinge of lavender, the lion head grew to the size of a horse and she thrust its open maw at Zetsu. He had no time to avoid the enormity of the attack, and was completely swallowed by the chakra, his body disintegrating into nothing as the chakra ripped him to shreds. There was nothing left to grow back from, not even the slightest molecule. Black Zetsu stood stock still, watching the whole thing with wide eyes. Suddenly, blood ran from his nose and he slumped to the ground, his half being incompatible with life without the white half.
Hinata grinned defiantly at Madara as she stood from the half crouch she had used to force the lion head at Zetsu. "Then there was one" she said fiercely, preparing to attack. He stood there, expressionless behind his mask.
Hinata glared at him and ran in for the attack, his one eye filling her vision, its redness seeming to reflect her hatred for him. Before she realized it, it was him that was drawing her in with his ocular jutsu.
"Tsukoyomi" he breathed, just so that she barely heard, and before she knew it, she was in a world of red and black, a world of pain.
'How could I forget that!' she screamed at herself inwardly. She hadn't had to bother about the ocular power of the Sharingan before because Sasuke's hadn't been able to affect Nibi's eyes. However, Madara was obviously more powerful, and if he had the strength to control the Kyuubi, of course he could control the Nibi!
"Whatever you do to me, it can't be worse than what I've already gone through in my life" she said bravely in defiance as he came towards her, a long black rod in his hand that disturbingly reminded her too much of Pain. She went to put a hand to her chest where the old wound had scarred before the Nibi was forced into her, but found that her hands were tied to some sort of cross.
"I'm not scared of pain, I've had plenty worse than you can give me in my life!" she again shouted, hoping at least to stall for some of her 72 hours.
Madara slowly took off his mask, to reveal his maniacally grinning face. "Oh, I know about your past, and I know I have no means of being that bad to you, of giving you that much physical pain." The way he said physical made her shiver. "No, I have something much better" he said.
Her eyes widened, shaking in their sockets, when a sight materialized before her. It was of Naruto, head and hands shackled onto one of those old school execution blocks, and Madara's pole had turned into a dark axe.
She watched helplessly as the ax rose and fell, over and over again, Naruto's dismembered head rolling to her feet again and again, his accusing, dead eyes staring up at her.
"Noooooooooooooo!" she screamed her heart out.
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"C'mon Ai, we saw the purple chakra, you know what Naruto said, we've got to get out of here!" Jin shouted, trying to tug at Ai's arm, while his other two teammates still watched. He cursed himself for bringing them up here; he thought they could help their sensei if she got into trouble, but now after seeing the degree of jutsu she had been using, he knew that if she couldn't beat them, the genin had no chance.
"It was just a tiny bit; she only used a tiny bit!" Daigo said, and Ai nodded in agreement.
"But you heard what the Hokage said, that chakra has the power to destroy Hidden Villages!" he shouted again.
"Look, their just standing there" Ai said as she saw the two combatants come to a sudden stop. Then, a second later, Hinata started shaking. Her shivering grew until her body was jerking uncontrollably, though her now deep purple eyes were still locked to her enemies. Then, suddenly, they felt it. A huge killing intent swamped over them, emanating straight from their sensei. It was so strong they couldn't even move under it.
Then the man moved, a knife rising in his hand as he stepped forward and stabbed Hinata in the heart. But even as the blade penetrated, a bone chilling scream came from Hinata, reverberating across the clearing, instantly followed by a huge wave of chakra. The purple chakra exploded from Hinata, pushing the knife and Madara back away from her, the blood that spurted from her chest instantly turning to dust in the turbulence of chakra.
The genin were literally blown away, and when they took one look up from the ground, seeing their sensei hovering in the center of the clearing, eyes closed to the sky, completely covered in purple chakra with two chakra extensions like tails emanating out behind her, they ran for their lives.
This had been what Naruto had warned them about. "Go go go!" Jin screamed, pushing Ai and Daigo before him as more waves of chakra, uncontrolled and deadly, burst across the landscape, tearing trees up and throwing the genin further and further away.
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Naruto looked up from toying with his students, dropping the bells instantly. "Stay here" he said seriously, and then flash stepped away. 'That chakra' he thought as he travelled at insane speed throughout the village, his training area having been on the other side from Hinata's. 'What's happening!'
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Battered and bruised, the three genin stumbled through the gates of the village, just as their Hokage reached there from the other side.
"Hey, you guys are Hinata's team right, what's going on!" he shouted quickly, obviously in a rush.
"Akatsuki…Training area 51…Purple chakra" Jin breathed through his heavy panting, having to have had to half carry his teammates the whole way.
But the Hokage was already gone, half sprinting half flash stepping away to Area 51. When he got into a few mile radius, he felt something even more disturbing than the immense chakra.
'That killer intent. It's worse than at Cloud. Hinata, what are you doing?' he thought in despair as he barreled through the forest.
When he finally came to the sight, he wished he had been the blind jinchuuriki.
"No" he breathed.
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Madara was suitably shocked when Hinata, instead of having a mental breakdown from the thousands of times she saw her beloved die, broke out of the genjutsu a full day early by the sheer force of her rage.
"You'll die for that!" the usually shy kunoichi screamed, bloodlust infecting her voice. The Nibi's chakra erupted around her once again after the initial surge, continually blowing the trees and scrub in the surrounding forest away.
Even Madara couldn't help but feel a tremor in his spine when he saw the two chakra tails sprout from the chakra cloak the girl now wore, and her skin begin to slowly flake away, revealing a turmoil of solid blue and purple chakra underneath.
"Shit, maybe I went a bitfar" he cursed under his breath. Casting his mask aside, he focused both eyes on the girl. But she had let her sight go, instead coating the world, infecting every molecule of air, with her bijuu's chakra in a five mile radius. She could feel everything flailing around by the weight of her chakra, except for one point. She focused on the man before her, the source of all her burning hatred.
"DIE!" she screeched. Still half transformed, she tore across the ground before him, her tails lashing out on either side of her while chakra claws lengthened from her hands towards the man.
Madara desperately dodged her attacks by going in and out of the Suseri realm, but wasn't quite fast enough, gaining a long tear on his arm in one occasion and a thin spike of chakra that came off one of her tails through his hip. He too sent these injuries into the other realm, temporarily shifting the pain.
After the initial shock of the brute force and power of the attack, he began to read and predict her movements, now rapidly becoming easy to avoid. They were unpredictable due to her lack of strategy through her madness, but they were basic enough to be avoidable. She made no attempt at defense either, and so he was able to inflict multiple cuts in her chakra armor, even if they did almost instantly sizzle away.
Finally, he saw the opening he was looking for, and, clutching his arm, he sent a huge burst of chakra straight through her gut, carefully missing her heart as the hardened, condensed energy tore through chakra, cloth, skin, muscle, bone and all.
Hinata felt her spine torn in two, felt the connection to her lower half severed, and gave everything over to the Nibi, so lost was she in rage. Seeing Naruto killed and tortured so many times had indeed broken her, though in a different way than Madara had expected. The Nibi's chakra quickly took over, her body going to where its cage was and the chakra constructed bijuu taking form, being not a part of her physical body it didn't have her wounds.
Hinata's mind dimmed as the pain of her injuries followed her, the adrenaline that had been saving her thus far didn't. In the confines of the bijuu's mind, she stared down at her mutilated body with a horrified look, and her eyes slowly fluttered closed.
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Madara glared up at the bijuu now confronting him, in the solid form of the two tailed cat, the size of a house. He had been hoping to put her down before it came to this, but it looked like he didn't have a choice. As the cat roared its anger to the sky, before it finished reveling in its sweet freedom, he began signing for a jutsu.
"No" he heard whispered from the trees behind him, and whipped around to see the Kyuubi, the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf, Naruto Uzumaki, standing in a tree behind him. But his eyes were not on him, they were on the raging bijuu before Madara.
Said masked man (now without a mask) considered his options. Here were the two last bijuu he needed, but there was a reason why they were the last. They were the most powerful. And now they were together, and allied, and his own ally was dead. It was not good odds, even for the first Uchiha.
Coming to a finally decision while the bijuu and jinchuuriki were still busy, he took off through the trees, to make the capture another day. He had survived thus far by being patient, what were another few months? The Nibi felt his chakra moving off, Hinata's sensor still in place, and gave chase.
Naruto growled ferally as he came out of his trance, not knowing what had caused his girlfriend to become this, but having seen Madara and a very dead Black Zetsu, he could have guessed. Hinata had fought two of the Akatsuki alone; of course she'd had to resort to her bijuu. He took off in pursuit, but the two original combatants quickly outdistanced him. He had used up a lot of chakra to flash step all the way here, so he wanted to save the rest for the fight. But a bijuu and an Uchiha were too fast even for the Hokage. He sighed, and then shifted to his four tailed Kyuubi form, which he could now control easily, and gave pursuit, quickly catching the Nibi.
It's bottomless, dark purple, almost black, eyes didn't even take notice of his presence; they were locked solely on the back of her retreating foe. The two bijuu barreled through the forest after Madara, who by now was feeling more and more worried as they were gaining fast.
Finally, he came across what seemed suitable, the Stand of the Two Kings. He smiled when he saw his statue and alighted on it. The Nibi landed on the First's head across from the waterfall, her claws fragmenting the rock as they gripped it in anger. Naruto landed beside it, the black and red chakra of the Kyuubi having already consumed his body form.
Madara eyed the two bijuu, and accepted that he maybe wouldn't win this battle. "Well, if I am to lose here, at least it will be the only place I have ever lost" he said, remembering how the only time beforehand he had ever lost was this exact place against the Senju.
He got feral growls in return, as expected. Then they were charging for him. He began signing even as he jumped out of the way; he knew he would need to take one out before he even had a chance to defeat the other. Gathering most of his chakra for one huge strike, he aimed for the Nibi, and shouted "Great Flames of the Uchiha!" Blue flames, wrapped in lightning, erupted from his hands, the great ball of them dwarfing the Nibi as it sailed through the air towards them.
Nibi saw the attack coming, but had no time to dodge. It swiveled to one side to avoid the majority of the attack, but it was too late. The side still in range of the attack was torn apart, half of the great beast destroyed in a huge spray of blood and an explosion of chakra.
Naruto cried out seeing what had just become of his girlfriend, but being the Hokage, he forced himself to capitalize on the situation. Using his four tails, he wrapped them around Madara in the aftereffects of his jutsu.
Madara turned to him with Sharingan blazing, and Naruto unconsciously found himself look into those eyes. Even as it began to break through the layers of chakra to get into his mind, Nibi came out of the smoke of the remnants of chakra in the air, half its being still moving towards Madara, its forward momentum having never stopped.
Madara had no time to escape as the claws descended on him. He screamed as they tore into his face, right through Naruto's tails still holding him, tearing his body into three. The Nibi lands on top of the giant statue of Madara's head and continued to tear apart its fallen foe, until there was nothing but scraps left. Then, it slumped onto its good side, its two remaining legs feebly twitching. Opening its mouth, it gathered a quick condensed chakra ball, turned it to the stone and fired, disintegrating the giant statue and all remainders of Madara Uchiha from the Shinobi world.
Naruto reverted back to his human form at the same time as Hinata, the Nibi's chakra disappearing, and caught the remains of his girlfriend. The Nibi's injuries had all been transferred to her, but within her mind it was too weak to begin the healing process. He looked at her horrific wounds. From her left shoulder down to her left thigh was gone, ripped off, with a larger wound in her stomach.
Naruto knelt in the rubble of the remains of the great statue and cried hopelessly. His girlfriend's blood poured out of her, the copious amounts quickly soaking his trouser and dwarfing the tiny puddle his tears made. He knew without looking no one could survive such wounds. This time, there was no doubt. Hinata Hyuuga was truly dead.
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Man I am incredibly cruel, but to spare you the horror, I'll update the next and last chapter today.
So please, don't kill me!